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MICHAEL LONG

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Sep 14, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · MICHAEL LONG | Staff Editor and Writer

    Coroner called after person struck by vehicle in Leacock Township: dispatch (opens the original)

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    The Lancaster County Coroner’s Office has been called to Leacock Township after a person was struck by a vehicle. According to emergency dispatchers, around 3 p.m. fire and emergency medical officials were dispatched to the first block of North Hollander Road near Old Philadelphia Pike for reports of a person struck by a vehicle. Officials arriving on scene reportedly found one person down near a barn on the block and requested county coroner’s office officials to be sent to the scene. Ro

  2. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · MICHAEL LONG | Staff Editor and Writer

    Mifflin County man arrested in East Cocalico Township after police chase on PA Turnpike (opens the original)

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    A man wanted in connection with a shooting in Mifflin County earlier this month was arrested Friday in East Cocalico Township following a police chase on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Police say Kio Dejesus-Pena, 42, was wanted on multiple attempted homicide charges stemming from a Sept. 5 shooting outside a bar in his hometown of Lewistown that left one person hospitalized. Surveillance video shows a man waiting outside for a group of five people to leave a bar before retrieving a firearm and fir

  3. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · MICHAEL LONG | Staff Editor and Writer

    How to prevent crashes at the treacherous Route 222 exit on Route 30 east [Lancaster Watchdog] (opens the original)

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    Was there ever a time when exiting Route 30 east onto Route 222 north in Manheim Township didn’t make a driver’s stomach churn? Even before PennDOT widened Route 30 at the turn of the 21st century, the cross-merging of traffic — Route 30 east drivers trying to enter Route 222 and crossing paths with Route 272 drivers trying to enter Route 30 — regularly dammed up the roadway with a sea of red brake lights. After the Route 30 corridor expanded from four to six lanes around 2000, and the n

  4. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · MICHAEL LONG | Staff Editor and Writer

    A brief history of the measles vaccine in Lancaster County and beyond (opens the original)

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    Most people alive today can’t remember life without a measles vaccine. Seventy years ago, the vast majority of American children contracted measles before they were old enough to drive a car. Parents viewed the virus as an inevitable rite of passage for their children, as a 1965 editorial in the former Lancaster New Era newspaper noted: “People thought having measles was as much a part of childhood as losing baby teeth.” In the 1950s, more than 95% of children came down with measles by the

  5. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · MICHAEL LONG | Staff Editor and Writer

    After years of scarcity, family apple tree yields bumper crop; squirrels approve [column] (opens the original)

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    Having wrung out the last splash of Sicilia lemon juice from its squishy yellow plastic container, I shed my apron, grabbed the car keys and headed out the door for the grocery store. But when I jumped off the front porch, bounding over the front steps, I landed not on the sidewalk, but in the middle of a spaghetti-western showdown. Across the front lawn, perched on its hind legs on my neighbor’s front steps, a squirrel squatted with an apple in its mouth, supporting with its front paws the we

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